From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 01:19:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx
Message-ID: <20120531011911.GC5488@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vehq18c82.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 04:45:33PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Lanny Ripple <lanny@spotinfluence.com> writes:
> 
> >   lanny;~> echo "Rémi Leblond" | LANG=C LC_ALL=C sed -ne 's/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='\''&'\''/p'
> >   GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='R'émi Leblond
> 
> So in C locale where each byte is supposed to be a single character,
> that implementation of "sed" refuses to match a byte with high-bit
> set when given a pattern '.'?
> 
> That is a surprising breakage, I would have to say.

It should not be too surprising, since we discussed it a few months ago:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192218

Thomas provided a gross but workable solution here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192237

and we also talked about eventually having a shell-quoting mechanism for
pretty placeholders.  Then the discussion rambled into "this sed is
horribly broken, and the user should get a better sed" territory. Maybe
we need to revisit that decision, since this is now two bug reports.

-Peff